Kaveh Akbar’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Tin House, PBS NewsHour, A Public Space, Guernica, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the founder and editor of Divedapper, a home for dialogues with vital voices in contemporary poetry. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, September 2017) and the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. He will be a visiting professor at Purdue University in Indiana in Fall 2017.

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The Moth Mainstage in Portland
December 10, 2019
The Moth returns to Portland this December! This extraordinary performance will sell…

Slamlandia: December
December 12, 2019
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam which meets on the…

Building a Writing Habit
January 5, 2020
January 5 – February 9, 2020 Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon (6…

Collisions: Short Story Workshop
January 14, 2020
January 14–February 18, 2020 Tuesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. (six sessions) Instructor: Josha Nathan…

Everybody Reads 2020: Tommy Orange
March 5, 2020
Literary Arts is proud to host an evening with award-winning author Tommy…